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Global Logistics Media - Manhattan Mobility Labs, Mobile Technology (VIDEO)
I'm glad I'm not the anyone who noticed this. I don't know if those are just a few millimeters or several meters.
Good call. The feel of that analogy is closer to what I had in mind.
People are reading way too into my mention of Android's hardware button here. My point is that before iPhone 5, iOS had a sane convention of back buttons being at the top left corner of the screen. (And Android had a relatively sane one in the form of a hardware button, for comparison.) Now, with the bigger screen, this sane convention has instantly turned into a regular pain point. It would be much better now, for example, if navigation in an app were exclusively in the bottom bar so it could be reached easily by the user, and the top bar is a "read-only" information bar with perhaps buttons for destructive or rarely-needed actions.

Two of the most common actions in apps on the iPhone are to tap the top left and bottom parts of the screen. To do this on iPhone 5 for many users will require continual readjustment of the phone in their hand. For me, this is a showstopper and actually makes the iPhone 4S I own now feel better designed since the hardware size is in tune with the layout of the software. The new iPhone is shoehorning a UX that works well on a smaller screen into a larger one and it fails.
I think this is how people approach it. When you say switch over, what do you switch over to?
Why professional standards are not always a good thing
Use http://www.bizbuysell.com/ or one of the other business sales sites. or hire a business broker.
Sue in small claims court? I thought part of the point of class actions were to make things cheaper for defendants by only having to defend one case instead of thousands.
Crazy, looks like vegetation from 200 miles up but if the theory regarding CO2 is correct that is pretty crazy!
any position that requires phd level math/physics/chemistry etc is extremely rare even in the west.

job descriptions like to say phd level blah blah blah but rarely do they actually require such a theoretical background.
Bid is only one factor. See http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
Why repeat exactly what's in the linked page? Probably half the people reading that stackoverflow question from hn have EE degrees so the answer was obvious to most, but I don't see the point of just copying the answer over to hn.
the other oft-overlooked part of this discussion is te frequency of one-handed use.

I've been observing people using phones in the wild and anecdotally a frequent one handed use case is while eating, which, if you're eating alone or on the go, is a really good time to use it. I've seen a lot of big phone users forced to get their lunchtime emailing, checking, texting, etc, out of the way before eating, while lots of iPhone users can get their things done while they eat. Why hobble yourself for .3 inches?

Being an iPhone user myself, it's kind of strange to think that almost any time I want to do something with my phone that I basically need to be handcuffed to it: brushing my teeth, holding onto a rail in the metro, drinking a cup of tea, referencing something while cooking, holding a bag, writing something down, etc. Is the extra real estate worth the forced modality?
Keep in mind though that in certain cases (not majority), being obese is quite different than bad odor, bad clothes etc. Reason being that in those cases, it is a disorder (I personally know someone with this problem) while bad odor, bad clothes etc. are still something that can be controlled and resolved.
I am frequently forced off the sidewalk by cyclists while walking my dog, and we even have bike lanes!
Working with a friend and family had a great advantage that even if you mess up something they will be still around to help (now, if your "friends" stop being your friend because of some business failure then they were not real friends anyway).
IANAL, but while you cannot totally give up your right to sue, you can voluntarily restrict it.

For example, you can agree to resolve disputes in binding arbitration, and then you could only sue on the grounds that the arbitration was in some way unfair.

Similarly you can agree to not take part in a class-action suit, while still being allowed to sue as an individual.

Now that only applies to contracts that are negotiated. Contracts of adhesion (a non-negotiable contract when there is a disparity of power, like an EULA between you and Microsoft) have a lot more restrictions.

It looks like Pay Pal is trying to get around this by allowing users to opt-out, thus making it negotiable. I'm not sure if there is precedent for that. Those who are actually lawyers might know.
Discovering this trick as a kid was one of the many steps on the path to my fascination with all things acoustic. The widening effect of having the two earpieces out of phase was particularly intriguing to my young mind.
Yes, that's what I'd like to see too. A simple notification that an update is available would be all that's needed.
This is a very YMMV post. Everyone's family/friend situation is different, as is the type of business you're heading into.

Personally I'd rather befriend those that I work with to avoid mixing contexts. But then again I'm very particular about the way I conduct my business and how I get things done. Ultimately when you hire friends and family, you're bringing the social contracts into a different atmosphere. If I hire a friend as a programmer, I'm somewhat socially obligated to listen to his advice about taxes, whereas I have no obligations to a stranger that I hire for that purpose. The absolute worst thing is to ask your significant other for advice on a topic that they know little about, then having to pretend that you're considering it.
Well a small consolation is better than none.
Ask HN: Does a "Counter Strike Casino" exist?
Are there currently physical casinos, or online casinos which allow you to gamble on modern shooter games? Is there demand for this?
I would love to. Can't really get a visa though.

I don't mind bailing out medicare or SS. I just don't want to transfer my work to somebody who will shit on me for doing it and then use the funds to pay people who call me evil.
'Star Trek' fusion impulse engine in the works
Still read it, but stopped contributing to slashdot a few years back, the slashdot effect had a downside that comments were getting lost in the noise.

I dont think nobody has yet solved the problem of comments once a site gets too popular.
Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day
They come to America? For what it's worth, I know several PhDs from Japan working here in the SF Bay Area, all in biotech.
The numbers feel so very low, but that's a good reminder of how insulated a developer can get from their users.
Bryan, you may get a kick out of drip.fm. It certainly satisfies the first two prongs of your model (access+exclusivity).
Reading back over the thread, i think you're conflating market with free market. By definition, Apple has a market.

Apple can do whatever they want - it's their toy store. I'm not saying it must be a free market. There are two possibilities regarding the delay of the google app. 1, it's taking a long time to actually review the app. 2, Apple is delaying approval, hoping siri will get more market share.

The more time passes, the more it looks like 2 is the case.

Now, this is my speculation about how our thinking differs. You seem to think Apple would only ever do #2. That, because it is their toy store, they will actively quash competing apps, even apps that don't violate the terms of service. Or, at the very least, pay far more attention to threatening apps than a random fart app.

I'm more nieve than you, so I'm willing to allocate some probability to #1.
The post isn't mainly about the trojan but about what else the government admits doing. Yes, it's no secret that Skype, Facebook, Gmail are monitored, but who knew for sure and how much money is spent on that? If you take it for granted that surveillance can happen everywhere all the time: no news. If you're interested in the details: I'd say that wasn't public before.
An Old-School RPG by Brenda Brathwaite and Tom Hall!
I checked that guy's profile, he's not a spammer, just a karma whore.
> Unless you opt out: (1) you will only be permitted to pursue claims against PayPal on an individual basis

So, you can opt out. But they will retain a herd immunity of sorts -- as long as a critical mass of users doesn't opt out, a class action can never gain steam. Clever.

Incidentally, has anyone managed to opt out? I can't figure out how to (the new TOS doesn't even show up for me, so it may be that non-US users are not affected)
I think I explained my point poorly.

If you do not care about music enough to seek it out (which is most people) and music is just something that's in your life when you're driving to work or doing the cleaning you rely on the "music industry" to be your aggregator, they make/take music that they know the average person will like (yay formulas!) and deliver it to you through radio, television and all the other places people listen to music.

If that disappears and music becomes something you have to actively seek out, or find yourself disliking most of the music you're hearing on the radio ("this week on the top 40 from some website that people that care about music visit...") you're just going to give up.

music is a part of our lives, yes, but not because it's something most people are passionate about, it's because it's just something that is there. I've started to enjoy music a lot recently, but for the majority of my life it wasn't something I cared about at all, I would just listen to whatever was popular and I was happy with that. My mother is the same, she'll hear a song on the radio and like it and then go out and buy the bands album and listen to that, she would never sit hunched over a computer trawling through websites sharing different music, or flick through TV channels, or switch between radio stations.

I used reddit as an example of a website that delivers content of a specific type to people that want it. The example you're using (Soundcloud, Hypemachine) would be sites like Hackernews, they cater to a specific audience. Most people that use reddit are just idle consumers, they go to reddit.com click the top 20 links, laugh at the cute cat pictures and move on. How many ever subscribe to communities they care about? A relatively small amount. That's the amount that would ever seek out music. (edit: I think a good way to explain it in simple terms is: reddit is "my first internet content aggregator", the music industry is "my first music aggregator")

How the system works now isn't PERFECT, but it's pretty great. Popular music is distributed by big labels, they control what the average person hears and "know" what most people like; people that want more than just the popular music can seek it out and/or contribute through kickstarter (which is growing, which is great). I think what the article describes is fantastic and it SHOULD happen, but alongside big labels, not as a replacement.

Music should be paid for, music should generate revenue, artists should be able to use labels to get big, but artists should also be able to stay independent, make music for making music, have their fans fund what they want to hear. That sort of thing is great, but both can exist at the same time (and I think they will)
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself – that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed."

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The 'billion euros' are in the document that's in the post. You can just add the sums mentioned.
Does anyone know how to setup a keyboard to pass absolutely all keys to a VM?

I like OSX for power management and driver compatability, but I sorely miss having a tiling window manager. I would like total pass through of keystrokes to a VM. Dropping out of the VM could be accomplished by running a program on the host machine via ssh from the VM.
Maker Faire New York: 3D Printer Census 2012
SEEKING WORK in Knoxville, TN or remote.

Have you ever paid a consultancy or freelancer for a product and while what you got back technically worked it turned out to be made entirely of duct tape and band-aids? Me too. That's why I'm here. It makes me mad to see people pay good money for bad work.

I'm here to handle the projects that you need to get done, but don't quite have the time for. I'm all about the agile, and you will get a daily status report and code check-in that will fit right into your standup. No more wondering what's been done and what remains.

I'm a big believer in TDD and will provide you with full tests along with the solution, so when it comes time for you to modify it yourself you won't have to wonder if your change is going to break something.

I specialize in .NET, specifically MVC and web services (WebAPI, WCF). I was doing Single Page Applications before they were cool (and before anyone knew about Knockout.js).

I'm also familiar with Ruby, MySQL and Mongo if you lean that way.

Résumé at http://careers.stackoverflow.com/steverb

Contact me at: me@steverb.com
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You're right, they could probably shave a lot off that $1.5M if they made partnerships with other businesses instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.

They'd have fewer tasks to complete as well. What would be necessary for a good MVPt0wn?
6 Reasons M-Dot Websites are Dead Ends
Way cool project!!
Amanda Palmer’s Accidental Experiment with Real Communism [Kickstarter]
On the other hand, Stalin and Hitler both had full heads of hair, as did Pol Pot. Chavez looks like he has a good amount of hair, too, likewise Saddam Hussein. Pinochet and Kim Jong-Il both looked like they were thinning towards the ends of their lives, but didn't apparently feel the need to do much about it. I can't find much evidence about Gadaffi one way or the other, other than a few shots that suggest he was at least not going bald at the front (and certainly not the sides).

So all in all, it looks like responding to male pattern baldness by shaving one's head does not correlate especially well with becoming a dictator.

But then again, correlation is not causation, and that goes both ways.
If I hold my iPhone in portrait, it's exclusively one hand. Landscape is two hands. Portrait is by far the most frequent, though.
Ellison says Oracle eats own dogfood for cloud apps
This is an excellent compilation of info and tricks and I look forward to using some of it myself on the software side.

On the hardware side, I don't think I've ever seen anything surpassing http://mykeyboard.co.uk/microswitch/ in sheer dedication to the goal of a truly efficient and comfortable/safe keyboard. I wish I had the space, money and time to attempt something similar (also not a laptop as a primary machine, but that's another matter entirely)
And when it comes to Martian geography, we are hopelessly bad at judging scale. It's very easy to be several orders of magnitude off without a guide or legend.
Custom discrete microswitch keyboard
One way to get around this is to offer an incentive to people who've purchased your book to give you their email address, for example, a workbook; and link to the email signup landing page within the book.
How is this down voted? Is it not a valid comment that could lead to a meaningful discussion? Stop being tree-hugging Communists, bros.
Well, that's the thing, it provides more functionality than many people need, and requires more code than should be needed for some small projects.

Binding URLs to functions and dispatch strings is all I need for a great many small projects; I have a very easy time managing the DOM with my own widgets and managing data with simple JavaScript objects. So the "heavy" part can be having to learn which parts of the API I do or don't need, reading through tutorial docs, etc.
Iron man's 3D Virtual Objects now possible with Kinect
It's remarkable how the Kinect hardware is democratizing computer vision research and development. These days anyone can acquire fast, cheap CPU time plus an affordable vision platform.
What are "meaningful" problems.
ChalkHQ wants to solve meaningful problems. We'd like to open discussion about what the world's greatest inefficiencies and challenges are in big business and government. It doesn't have to require a software solution. Tell us what you're working on, and how do you define "meaningful".
The music industry's disappearance won't create a void, things will move in to take their place.

You don't need the big labels to be the filter, there are plenty of other individuals and companies who will take that place as the arbiters of "popular" music.
Free cell phone service, you listen to ads instead of ringtones.
I got the strangest feeling reading this, it reads like the author is trying to hack a 'freemium' model into the Kindle experience and Amazon is thwarting his efforts. Is that what is going on here?

The punchline at the end is you can buy the PDF for $20? His counter example 'porn for housewives' is $10.

And there is the complaint about not being able to publish in Polish (ok so its a strange restriction I agree but ...)

Is it that hard to sell an epub version of the book from a web site for Kindle and others? O'reilly seems to do that successfully.

Left with more questions than answers.
It's interesting in contrast to the way Microsoft does it, as explained by grellas here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4460843

They're similarly restricting class action suits, but doing so in a way that comes off as quite generous.
The one thing I don't love about my HHKB is its lack of dedicated F-keys.

Any suggestions for a good alternative?
Ah, the fond memories of hitting Slashdot at least 5x per day back when I worked for early Amazon (1998?). I remember all the memes from back then. Like many people attest, it was hugely useful to make connections to other FOSS and Linux users.

But the biggest thing I remember was 9/11 and the updates from /. users who lived in NYC, Brooklyn, and Queens right after the disaster happened...at the point when the only other coverage was CNN.
True. While there are examples of life getting this large or larger on Earth (blooms, clonal colonies, etc), this seems unexpectedly large for a planet that seems otherwise lifeless.
twitter is where you find people you want to know, facebook is where you find people you used to know ...
How Software Engineers Describe Feasibility
Sure, Jobs set the direction. He also passed less than a year ago, months after the Samsung case began. Nothing changes that fast, so it's not clear at all that Apple's management wants to continue down that path in the future.

In fact, you don't have to look far to find "industry insiders" who claim just the opposite. Current CEO Tim Cook publicly stated that he hates litigation (his words) and he met with Larry Page recently to discuss ways to "live peaceably together" and avoid unnecessary litigation. Is this sincere or just lip service? I don't know, but if we're playing the game of predicting Apple's future, it's important to the discussion.
From the Policy Updates page:

Opt-Out Procedure.

You can choose to reject this Agreement to Arbitrate ("opt out") by mailing us a written opt-out notice ("Opt-Out Notice"). For new PayPal users, the Opt-Out Notice must be postmarked no later than 30 Days after the date you accept the User Agreement for the first time. If you are already a current PayPal user and previously accepted the User Agreement prior to the introduction of this Agreement to Arbitrate, the Opt-Out Notice must be postmarked no later than December 1, 2012. You must mail the Opt-Out Notice to PayPal, Inc., Attn: Litigation Department, 2211 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95131.

The Opt-Out Notice must state that you do not agree to this Agreement to Arbitrate and must include your name, address, phone number, and the email address(es) used to log in to the PayPal account(s) to which the opt-out applies. You must sign the Opt-Out Notice for it to be effective. This procedure is the only way you can opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, all other parts of the User Agreement, including all other provisions of Section 14 (Disputes with PayPal), will continue to apply. Opting out of this Agreement to Arbitrate has no effect on any previous, other, or future arbitration agreements that you may have with us.
They've got great unique content. This is good for two reasons:

a) Google loves unique content. Unique content on old-world lyrics websites consists of comments buried under the fold. Whereas these guys have pages and subpages full of it.

b) They're going to get a bajillion inbound links because their content is interesting to link to (as opposed to standard lyrics sites). Which will rank them higher than their competitors for the same queries.

I see a lot of comparisons with Yelp. I still type in business names with "Yelp" appended into google because I want a specific result. Wouldn't be surprised if they're getting the same sort of queries already since what they have is so much better than any lyrics site.

Side note: I just opened AZ lyrics and some flash abomination nearly crashed my browser.
Ask HN: Niche blog+jobs in your area of expertise
I have been thinking hard of building something as a viable online business and after going through so many cool ideas, I am seriously considering settling down on an idea of starting a very specialized niche blog which hopefully can turn into a SAAS business later on. The idea is to engage and get a good chunk of users (critical mass) to register and follow this blog all for free. Once critical mass is reached, I will open it up to recruiters etc. to start posting jobs in that niche. This is a very specific area that I already work in and the first 100 users will actually be my co-workers. What do you guys say ?
I'm an AppNet user, but pretty limited in frequency. The primary reason is that I want proper posts to facebook and don't want to post in two places. I would like to see apps like this have the option to cross-post to facebook and twitter.

Ifttt fails because it does not allow proper link posts to facebook, and going through twitter to facebook results in truncated messages.
This was a great read, user #11637 here. I had a project many years ago called half-empty that made it onto the /. front page, which slashdotted my college apartment and got my cable Internet service cancelled within a few hours. This was my first taste of the crack-cocaine called "tail -f access.log". It was awesome. Thanks again Rob.
May be this is 3D and leap is 2D ?
Bombed. Cached anywhere?
Sorry you fail to see the relevance. Objective-C isn't owned by Apple in any way, shape or form. Of course, they are going to try to improve the language. They sort of have to make it modern since they built their systems around it. Apple's compiler an open source project: http://clang.llvm.org/ Will Microsoft ever open source their C# compiler? That would be a great boon for making the language cross platform.
Not true. Our products will continue to exist for free, and we'll actually be working on improving ACOM's sharing capabilities - i.e., bringing out its great content from behind the pay wall so the wider family network can view and appreciate it.
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And a few great customers is better then

THAN!